Wikipedia is using artificial intelligence to get more actual humans writing articles

Wikipedia is using artificial intelligence to get more actual humans writing articles

Better artificial intelligence is often associated with the detriment of a human workforce, but judging by some new practices by the team at Wikipedia HQ, it doesn’t have to be that way. In a report over at Wired, computer scientist Aaron Halfaker describes how Wikipedia recently began implementing an AI system he designed to detects vandalism and bogus edits on articles using machine learning – it can identify common patterns in vandalous edits, like a tendency for impropercharacterspacing. While on one hand that means less work for volunteers who look out for nefarious changes, Wikipedia belies the change will help reel in a swarm of new editors. It’s all about removing the barrier for entry. Because Wikipedia crowdsources its articles, it has to implement strict rules on who can make changes to major documents…